Ethnicity and coercion among involuntarily detained psychiatric in-patients

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 75-76

  Bennewith, Olive ^a   Amos, Tim ^a   Lewis, Glyn ^a   Katsakou, Christina ^b   Wykes, Til ^c   Morriss, Richard ^d   Priebe, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; RACISM; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COERCION; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; PREJUDICE;

EID: 74949119730     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: 14721465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.109.068890     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire Health Authority. Independent Inquiry into the Death of David Bennett. Cambridgeshire Health Authority, 2003.
2. Sabshin M, Diesenhaus H, Wilkeson R. Dimensions of institutional racism in psychiatry. Am J Psychiatry 1970; 127: 787-93.
3. Sashidharan SP. Institutional racism in British psychiatry. Psychiatr Bull 2001; 25: 244-7.
4. Gudjonsson GH, Rabe-Hesketh S, Szmukler G. Management of psychiatric in-patient violence: patient ethnicity and use of medication, restraint and seclusion. Br J Psychiatry 2004; 184: 258-62.
5. Bowers L, Douzenis A, Galeazzi GM, Forghieri M, Tsopelas C, Simpson A, et al. Disruptive and dangerous behaviour on acute psychiatric wards in three European centres. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 2005; 40: 822-8.
6. Flaherty J, Meager R. Measuring racial bias in inpatient treatment. Am J Psychiatry 1980; 137: 679-82.
7. Priebe S, Katsakou C, Amos T, Leese M, Morriss R, Rose D, et al. Patients' views and readmissions 1 year after involuntary hospitalisation. Br J Psychiatry 2009; 194: 49-54.
8. Iversen KI, Høyer G, Sexton H, Grønli OK. Perceived coercion among patients admitted to acute wards in Norway. Nord J Psychiatry 2002; 56: 433-9.
9. Cantril H. The Pattern of Human Concerns. Rutgers University Press, 1965.
10. Bindman J, Reid Y, Szmukler G, Tiller J, Thornicroft G, Leese M. Perceived coercion at admission to psychiatric hospital and engagement with follow-up: a cohort study. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 2005; 40: 160-6.
11. Singh SP. Ethnicity in psychiatric epidemiology: need for precision. Br J Psychiatry 1997; 171: 305-8.